Come Talk Vintage Tech!

The next Tallahassee Vintage Computer Club meeting will be on September 21st, 2025 from 1pm to 4pm again at the Making Awesome community maker space.

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Happy 50th Birthday to the Altair 8800!

The next Tallahassee Vintage Computer Club meeting will be on August 23rd, 2025 from 1pm to 4pm again at the Making Awesome community maker space. I will be demonstrating a real Altair 8800!

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Snow can be beautiful, but not here in Florida. I grew up in the North, but no one here even has an ice scraper and the city has no plan for clearing the roads. :(

When's the last time you used a computer that wasn't connected to the Internet?

I recently repaired a classic Commodore 64 with a few bad RAM chips, replaced the foam and foil keypads in a Compaq Portable Plus and got said Compaq fully back up and running with a new power supply. Very exciting!

I just rescued a huge pile of vintage boards from going to e-waste...286, 386, 486, Pentium, Celeron... and a number of ISA cards including several Sound Blasters.

If anyone is downsizing and has old computer stuff, please have them contact me. I will rescue anything more than 30 years old.

I'm happy to announce that the next Tallahassee Vintage Computer Club meeting will be on September 28th, 2024 from 1pm to 4pm again at the Making Awesome community maker space.

Our goal is to have fun and talk tech. This week it's all about disks!

Hard drive waves HI!

Testing a new inexpensive power meter with apparent power correction and four channel power supply. Works great so far, supports up to 60 volts and 12 amps (in series and parallel modes).

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The late 1980s saw the explosive rise of the desktop computer, and everyone wanted a piece.

Both Acer and Franklin built clones, but had very different approaches. Find out who thrived and who withered as I explore the Acer 500+ II and the Franklin PC-8000.

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Poo-covered Commodore 128 Barn Rescue

The Commodore 128 was the successor to the wildly popular C64 and the final 8-bit home computer to be released by Commodore.

Read the full story below to find out how much I was able to salvage.

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I recently found a nice 1987 Sony Watchman FD-10A for a reasonable price at a local thrift store. These days, it is pretty useless unless we can mod it to take composite input. So let's get to work!

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If you’ve ever seen any of the incredibly cheap and poorly made Crosley brand suitcase style audio players at Walmart or another big box store, this is the original design they were trying to imitate. Read the full story here: retrotechrestoration.com/early-1960s-...

The VIC-20 was Commodore's second 8-bit home computer, produced after the less popular Pet, but before the vastly more popular C-64.

This VIC-20 only needed small repairs, but it came with a rare Microlog Air-1 ham radio card

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In or near Tallahassee, FL? Check out the newly establish Tallahassee Vintage Computer Club. We're currently looking for new members and a good public meeting venue! www.meetup.com/tallahassee-...

* What services do you provide? *
-- Electrical troubleshooting, component and circuit board repair
-- Chip testing
-- 3.5″ & 5.25″ floppy disk recovery
-- Repair and replacement of mechanical parts
-- Gentle cleaning.and retrobrighting
-- Custom design and 3D printing of replacement parts